What Faith and Science Have in Common

Considering the origins of science are exclusively traced to monotheistic civilizations, they probably have a lot in common? If you’ve ever been persuaded to think that Faith and Science are enemies, watch Brian Holdsworth’s video commentary on what faith and science have in common.

For as long as I’ve been a Christian, I’ve been afflicted by a restlessness that compels me to want to be a collaborator in the Church’s mission of sharing the gospel with others. As a convert to the Catholic Church, I’m intimately aware of the gain I’ve found in Christ and his Church and what I’ve been liberated from. I want others to experience that liberation as well. My work as a creative professional has given me a certain set of skills to reach an audience in new and engaging ways. This is my attempt to do just that.

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Very well laid out – I shared it on my facebook because I hope that it will be seen by others who hold to the faith in only science idea. I found your video on my newsletter for daily devotions. I say it was a fortunate find. Thank you. I look forward to seeing more of your videos. Love, your sister in Christ, Laura

Modern empirical physical science, what English speakers today generally mean by ‘science’, is rooted in a faith that the physical universe is ordered way that is discoverable by our human rationality. Science could never have gotten off the ground without people who had such a faith. Christians believe that a benevolent rational God created the universe and that the creation bears the marks of its creator. This is why the inventors of science were Christian churchmen, specifically Catholic ones, who invented science rather than atheists or those of one of the other major world religions.

Christians need not fear science. It’s our own invention. The atheists are the ones who must explain why a universe that (somehow) mindlessly came into existence is so orderly and accessible to human rationality. The atheists are burdened with explaining away the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences*, not the Christians.